Let’s just get some things straight about it: there is a problem of broadband “access” in the city, the FCC and the American action is supposed to be trying to solve. The center of nearly every city in the country can buy internet connectivity from major internet provider. According to data from a media advisory Horowitz Associates, more than 80 percent of urban homes already have some sort of connection cables. So the problem is not access. The problem is the level of adoption, and in this case is very likely that more inner city households choose to have cable TV than cable internet connection.
But so what? When this becomes a problem that the company had to solve? And what gives the Government the right to force private companies provide service discounts for Select groups of people while the rest of their customers would have been forced to pay the Bills? The Administration did not respect the private companies and believe the abuse of executive power, which is what.
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